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Transport committee  With respect to your first question in terms of how meaningful it is to Canadian farmers, Canadian farmers get paid when they deliver their grain. With the inability to deliver their grain to domestic and international markets, they don't get paid, so it's vitally critical for ou

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Transport committee  To build on Mr. Carey's comments, I would suggest that forming the council of experts under the Minister of Labour is a key priority for our sector, and there should be strong representation from the agriculture sector as part of that council. I would also suggest that the agricu

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to present to you today on a topic of importance to the farmers whom our association represents. My name is Erin Gowriluk, and I am the executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada, a national advocacy associa

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

International Trade committee  Sure, I'll offer a brief comment on that, and my colleagues, I'm sure, will have more to add on that. From the perspective of Canadian grain farmers, at this point right now the crop is going in the ground; in many parts of the country, it has already. It's under way in other pa

June 1st, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

International Trade committee  Sure. Yes, I think we should absolutely be dedicating more resources. We've talked for a long time—the value chain associations, along with the Grain Growers of Canada—about the need for a policy pivot as it relates to international trade.

June 1st, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

International Trade committee  I think that's a great question, Mr. Hoback. I'll turn to my value chain partners to answer that question more specifically—

June 1st, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

International Trade committee  —but I'll build on some of the responses they shared already to say that in representing Canadian farmers whose livelihoods depend on international markets, a level of stability and predictability is what's required at this point. They're facing an increasing amount of unpredicta

June 1st, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair and committee members, for the invitation to address the committee today on a topic of importance to the farmers our association represents. My name is Erin Gowriluk. I am the executive director of Grain Growers of Canada, a national association

June 1st, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. Thank you very much for the question. As outlined in my initial comments, when we had an opportunity to survey our members in preparation for today's appearance, it was really all about efficiency and about cost savings. Many of the practices they've adopted make goo

May 2nd, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Agriculture committee  Certainly I think we would support that vision, as reflected in our commitment to the road to 2050. This road map that we're looking to develop has been done before. It would look very similar in its approach to the one that was developed by farmers in the United Kingdom. That

May 2nd, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Agriculture committee  What I mean by that in terms of recognition is a couple of things. One is the direct contributions they've made in the absence of any regulatory requirement to do that. They need to be recognized, too, during that time and going forward, for the fact that they know what's best

May 2nd, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Lehoux. With respect to the first part of your question, we have to bear in mind that the carbon tax is applied to natural gas and propane used for drying grain. At this point, farmers have no alternative but to use fossil fuels. That's

May 2nd, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Agriculture committee  That's part of what we're going to be looking to do as part of our road map to 2050, which is the initiative that's currently under way with the Grain Growers of Canada. To Ms. Miller's point, we want to ensure that, as a national association, we have an opportunity to have a nat

May 2nd, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Agriculture committee  Mr. MacGregor, thank you very much for the question. I'm not familiar with the strategy itself, but based on what you've told me about it today, it's definitely something worth exploring. To your last point, though, it's critical that any time we look at a strategy such as this

May 2nd, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk

Agriculture committee  I'll go back to something that Ms. Miller said in her comments around what she's hearing from Canadian farmers. That is, collectively, we want to see that all regulatory frameworks are developed with science in mind. This government talks a lot about the importance of science-bas

May 2nd, 2022Committee meeting

Erin Gowriluk